[MOBY-dev] vote on the RFC discussing Error Reporting

[Pieter Neerincx]

On  27Oct2005, at 24:18, Edward Kawas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am calling a vote on the RFC that discusses error
> reporting.
>
> Please refer to the following link:
> http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863

I'm in favor of RFC 1863. So I vote yes again. I think it's crucial  
for the speed of BioMOBY evolution to have have at least some error  
reporting in place. In the current situation where empty objects are  
returned if something goes wrong, a user is completely in the dark.  
Debugging such cases is extremely painful. Currently most users are  
developers as well so we can look in the log files of the machines  
where our services are running, but if we want BioMOBY to become more  
popular with 'normal' users we need some error reporting that makes  
sense a.s.a.p.

I found two small inconsistencies though:

Page 4 mentions refqueryID, refQuery and refQueryID attributes. Do I  
get it right that these are typo's and all the same atribute...?

Furtermore I think this:

"refElement -  refers to the articleName of the offending input  
Simple or Collection"

will be a problem. If it's referring to the articleName it should be  
called refArticleName. The problem is that articleNames are optional.  
There is no guarantee they will be present. Furthermore they not need  
to be unique. In case there are multiple elements of the same type,  
the articleName attribute can be used to differentiate between them.  
Hence the combination of element and articleName can be used by a  
service to find a specific element. If you want to link an execption  
to a specific element of the input you will need both a refElement  
and a refArticleName...

So instead of:

<mobyException refElement="input1"
                refQueryID="1"
                severity ="error">
     <exceptionCode>600</exceptionCode>
     <exceptionMessage>Unable to execute the service</exceptionMessage>
</mobyException>

I propose something like this:

<mobyException refElement="String"
                refArticleName="input1"
                refQueryID="1"
                severity ="error">
     <exceptionCode>600</exceptionCode>
     <exceptionMessage>Unable to execute the service</exceptionMessage>
</mobyException>

Just my 2c,

Pieter


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